[pulseaudio-discuss] Why PA does not show me sinks for surround audio output?

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/10/31 Lin, Mengdong <mengdong.lin at intel.com>:
> The sound card on my desktop supports 5.1 sound output, but PA only show one
> sink for the 2-channel front speaker. Why? Is it mean that PA cannot support
> surround output by default?

To be clear: pulse should handle this by default.

> The default sample channels and channel map are commented in
> /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:
>
> ;default-sample-channels =2
>
> ;default-channel-map= front-left,front-right

This has nothing to do with it.

> It seems the card has no profiles for surround output, by “pacmd
> list-cards”:
>
> profiles:
>
>                    output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority
> 6000)
>
>                    output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo
> Duplex (priority 6060)
>
>                    input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (priority 60)
>
>                    off: Off (priority 0)

Can you post output of pulseaudio -vvvv? btw, the IRC channel is also
good for these kinds of troubleshooting.

Maarten